How to find a sleep lab technician training manual

[JohnMudie]

I am realizing that the training I need to understand my APAP to be is most probably in the training manual that sleep lab technicians are given in training. So does anyone have any suggestions on how I can borrow such a manual.

Once upon a time I was on dialysis.While I sat in the chair being dialysed , I would borrow the technicians training manual and learned a lot about the dialysis process to the point that I could start checking that the technicians were following procedures correctly.

As I hope to have access to the numbers produced by an APAP in the near future, I suspect that the background understanding I need is in a sleep lab technician training manual. The training they get on how to do titration will be exactly what I want.

Suggestions welcomed

John

[VoicesInMyHead]

I did a quick google search for: sleep lab technician training

and found several schools for sleep techs. the first one:
http://www.sleepschool.com/ had a link to:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~thorpy/

Other than that, I'd check different school websites and see if they list the books the students need to buy - that might get you started in the right direction... Of course if you or any of your IM agents are caught, the secretary will disavow any knowledge. Good Luck Jim... er... John.

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[gster]

can you say E-bay???????????????

[blarg]

Well, sleep techs do a lot more in depth monitoring than just OSA stats. I guess if you focused on the titration sections it'd be helpful.

The overall concepts here are pretty straightforward and can be expressed in a paragraph... If you're looking for intricacies of reading Encore printouts etc, then that won't exactly be in there anyway...

I guess what I'm trying to say is if you have a specific question, ask and ye shall receive.